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| American Conservatory: Fontainebleau, France
Philippe Entremont - Director Housed in a wing of the Palais de Fontainebleau, less than an hour southeast of Paris, the American Conservatory was founded in 1921 to introduce the best American music students to the French musical tradition of teaching, composing and performing. It has included on its faculty the most prestigious names: Maurice Ravel, Marcel Dupré, Robert, Gaby and Jean Casadesus, Jean Francaix, Henri Dutilleux, Betsy Jolas, Leonard Bernstein, to name but a few. From the first, Nadia Boulanger devoted her talent, energy, knowledge, and influence to the American Conservatory of which she was Director from 1949 to 1979. The American Conservatory has played a major role in the training of a large number of famous American musicians such as Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, Louise Talma, Samuel Dushkin, Eliott Carter, Beveridge Webster, Kenton Coe and more. Under its new Director, Philippe Entremont, the American Conservatory continues to fulfill its mission, enlarging it to include European and Asian students. The American Conservatory Summer Session 2005 will be held for four weeks, July 4 - July 30. The majority of students are American or study in America, but many come from other parts of the globe. The faculty is primarily French as stated in the mission of the Schools. A special collaboration with the Fine Arts students, performed at the end of the summer session, celebrates the unique combination of the two schools. Program includes performing opportunities (recitals/concerts) and optional five-day trip to sites in the French provinces with the Architecture Department (not included in tuition fee). For advanced students of all ages, but particularly those currently enrolled in undergraduate or graduate music school programs. Distinguished faculty includes Philippe Entremont (Director), Philippe Bianconi, Frédéric Aguessy for piano, Gérard Poulet and Gil Sharon for violin, Richard Wolfe for viola, Herre-Jan Stegenga for cello, with chamber music coaching in association with Philippe Entremont and André Bon and Marco Stroppa for composition and analysis. Emphasis is on French music. Courses are also offered in fugue, improvisation and keyboard harmony by Isabelle Duha. Intensive lectures in French language and culture are given by Thérèse Casadesus Rawson. Enrollment is limited to 40. For more information on the Music Program email: Music Summer Session - July 4 to July 30, 2005 $3,000 tuition, lodging, meals M-F
Application deadline March 25, 2005
Chamber Orchestra Philippe
Entremont (Director) the world renowned French
conductor/pianist is recognized for his remarkable technique
and flair, both at the keyboard and on the podium. Mr.
Entremont has won great acclaim in both capacities, in
appearances with orchestras on five continents. Frédéric Aguessy, Born in Paris in 1956, studied piano with, among others, Yvonne Lefébure and Dominique Merlet at the Conservatoire National de Musique de Paris. A laureate of the international piano competitions of Naples, Geneva, Santander and Budapest, he won First Prize in the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Competition in 1979 and then began his international career. He performs with the major French orchestras and numerous foreign ones, in Germany, Eastern Europe, Portugal and participates in many festivals such as the International Festival of Yokohama (Japan), International Festival of Montpellier and Radio-France. He has recently toured in Japan and South America. He devotes much of his time to Chamber Music and teaching – first at the Conservatoire National de Paris and currently at the Conservatoire National de Région de Rouen.
Philippe Bianconi Winner of the Silver Medal in the
Seventh Van Cliburn International Competition, French
pianist PHILIPPE BIANCONI has mesmerized audiences and
critics throughout the world with his brilliant performances
in recital and as soloist with orchestra. Since making his
orchestral debut, Philippe Bianconi has appeared in North
America with the orchestras of Cleveland, Los Angeles,
Pittsburgh, St Louis, Baltimore, Atlanta, Minnesota, Dallas,
Columbus, Montreal and Vancouver. His international
appearances include engagements with the Orchestre de Paris,
the Orchestre National de France, the Philharmonique de
Monte-Carlo, the Melbourne Symphony, the Cape Town
Philharmonic, the Orchester der Beethovenhalle in Bonn, the
Toulouse Orchestra, as well as the Orchestre National de
l'Opéra de Paris. He has performed with such distinguished
conductors as Lorin Maazel, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Kurt
Masur, Edo de Waart, Marek Janowski, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski,
Georges Prêtre, James Conlon, Semyon Bychkov, Jeffrey Tate
and Gennady Rozdestvensky.
Régis Pasquier - At the age of 12, 1958,
Régis Pasquier obtained First Prize in violin and chamber music
at the Paris Conservatory. Richard Wolfe, born in New York in 1953, pursued his violin studies with Aaron Shapinsky and Dorothy Delay and graduated from the University of Cincinnati where he studied with Walter Levin (La Salle Quartet). He then spent five years in Israel as a member of the Israel Chamber Orchestra and during that period became interested in the viola. He settled in the Netherlands in 1983 and has been principal viola soloist for the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra since 1986. He often performs as a soloist with this orchestra. He is also very fond of Chamber Music and is a member of the Sergiu Luca Ensemble “Music in Context” in the U.S., the “Explorations” Ensemble in Belgium and other ensembles in the Netherlands. Herre-Jan Stegenga, born in Holland, was awarded First Prize at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris at age 17, after having studied with Paul Tortelier and with Joseph Calvet for chamber music. He began touring early on in his career as a soloist in France, Switzerland, England (where he records regularly for the BBC), the United States, South America and the Far-East. He currently teaches at the Rotterdam Conservatory and is first chair cellist for the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra. He is also a member of the string Ludwig Trio with Jean-Jacques Kantorow and Vladimir Mendelssohn. He has recorded for the CBS, Phillips, and Arion labels.
André Bon studied composition with Olivier Messiaen and music analysis with Jean-Pierre Guezec at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris. He also took a course in electro-acoustic music at the GRM of Radio-France. He won the Lili Boulanger Prize in 1975 after a two year residency at the Villa Medicis in Rome where he distinguished himself as a composer. In 1987, he was awarded the prize for best French musical production for his opera The Rape of Persephone and again in 1993 for his cantata Les Vallées du Cinéma. Then in 1996 he won the Wolf Ebermann Prize (Munich) from the International Theater Institute for his opera Girl with a Book. He was composer in residence at the Atlantic Art Center in Florida in 1991 and in 1993 at the American Foundation in La Napoule. He also taught Musicology at the University of Aix-en-Provence for several years. and is currently teaching at the Institute for future conservatory lecturers. He is actively involved in French musical life and his catalogue already lists over 40 works. Isabelle Duha studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris, where she obtained four First Prizes. She is now a faculty member at the same school, and she teaches a number of techniques of musical expression, including harmony, counterpoint, and fugue. She will conduct exercises on all instruments: harmonization, figured bass, memory, transposition work, and sight-reading. Notice: Music Auditions for Session 2005 will be held at Klavierhaus, 211 W. 58th ST, New York City Wednesday, February 2, 3:00 - 6:00 P.M. and February 16th, 10:00 - 3:00. Contact Jennifer Jahn at jenjahn@aol.com to schedule an audition. To properly display and print this PDF, please upgrade to the latest free Adobe Reader by clicking on the link below:
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